chapter 34
My Fair Lady (2)
Namgoong-yeon went straight to her dorm.
She stood in front of the shelf as if hesitating for a moment as she tried to collect all nine swords.
He told me to bring only one sword.
That condition might break her resolve to wield all nine swords.
But he was the one who always told her the truth and acknowledged her.
Neither her father nor her brother believed that she wielded nine swords.
He said he believed in front of her, but he told the truth with his eyes.
She put down her humming swords and took out only her first sword, Greatsword Billie Jean.
The weight of the nine swords was heavy, but the weight of Billie Jean alone was lighter than expected.
She carried Billie Jeanman on her back and headed to the dungeon.
*
Above the Dalianjang, there is a Sorina waiting for Namgungyeon.
“Do you hear me?”
“welcome. It’s a palace.”
It seems that she knows that her name is Nam Gungyeon.
She was munching on the pork stick macaron that she hadn’t eaten before.
“What are you doing here?”
“Hobini asked. I asked you to fight Gungnyeo. If you beat Goongyoni, you can eat cheese-sweet potato cutlet. They also buy macarons for dessert. You will definitely win.”
Namgoongyeon climbed up on the dagger.
I looked down at her from the second floor terrace, waving as if watching.
“What do you mean?”
“Literally. If you realize how it feels to deal with Sorina, you’ll understand why you need a nine-blade sword.”
“Can’t you just tell me the answer without asking?”
I ask her as if annoyed, but I cut it short.
“Enlightenment is not something you get by telling. Literally, you have to understand it. I just hope your brain is awake enough to realize this.”
Sorina raised her halberd.
“I don’t see you as a classmate. What a palace!!”
In the free evening, the sound of the eyes turned and flooded in.
The halberd that flew round and round collided with the great sword.
Strength is the victory of Sorina.
In the first place, there are very few people in the first year who can make a comeback by fighting her for strength.
At most, Lena and An Anderson from Class A.
Namgoong-yeon, who quickly realized this, stopped chasing and quickly tumbled backwards to widen the distance.
The ax blade that entered her waist in that state.
I’m used to fighting with a sounding halberd.
Halberd is a long hilt ax. And the means of attack are various other than simply cutting with an axe.
As if trying to break the center of gravity, Namgoongyeon makes the next move, slashing the incoming axe.
Namgoongyeon jumps and avoids slashing and steps on Halberd’s face, making it impossible to use.
Then he runs over the ax and strikes Pommello’s Sorina’s Meiji.
“Kellogg!”
She coughs and pulls back, but she’s not a man who can’t be overpowered by this.
In that state, she pulls the halberd to retrieve it and knocks over Namgoongyeon’s leg.
The sound of crawling on top of her who had fallen over.
Then, with Halberd’s pole, he climbs on Namgoong-yeon’s stomach and neck, pressing down on it.
As if Namgoong-yeon would not be subjected to this, she deflected Sona with only her back strength and stood on her two feet again.
In a matter of seconds, the two would have realized that each other was a serious fight.
“No apologies. Sigh, I thought you were an idiot.”
“You… you are too much! What a palace!”
“Are you better at fighting than you think?”
Namgungyeon enters again with a big swing.
Avoiding the slight sound of the sword strike, he entangled the sword again.
Suddenly the style changes.
He responds by quickly swinging his halberd, and swings his greatsword at an unstoppable speed, just like Namgung-yeon.
It’s so fast that it’s hard to keep up, and it’s hard to keep up.
Sometimes with technique, sometimes with speed, the two of them, coveting each other’s lives, raised their weapons, fought for nearly 20 minutes and could not come to a conclusion.
“ruler. stop. Enough now.”
“You haven’t settled yet?”
I forcefully lower Soina’s halberd, who is staring at Namgungyeon, who is gasping for breath.
“Gungnyoni called Sorina an idiot!”
“Nope. I knew that.”
“Same thing! ··· is not it?”
“It’s time for dinner, so you can stop now.”
I turn my eyes to Namgoongyeon again.
“What did you feel?”
“Did you just fight for 20 minutes?”
“We fought for 20 minutes. You fought for 20 minutes with only one weapon without the 8 weapons you had.”
She said looking at the sword.
“For once, I felt the emptiness of the eight swords. When I had to attack, there was definitely a sword that could stab me more easily if I had that sword.”
“In addition?”
My question is the way you want to activate her.
Mastering them one by one will make her a better person.
“More than I thought… even without those eight swords, I was able to flexibly hit it. I’ve always thought of Billie Jean as a circular sword that breaks down opponents’ formations and combines swords. But even with Billie Jean, he was able to move as fast as three swords and as flashy as two swords. I didn’t write in this direction.”
That’s right. It seems that I am gradually learning to answer my own questions and answers.
“In addition?”
Taking my gaze, she replies with a confident face.
“For the first time, I thought that I could go on a battle without using 9 swords at the same time.”
oh Looks like you’re finally getting a little bit of what I’m saying.
i smile roundly
“You have an obsession with handling all nine swords. That’s why your fighting style tends to be crude. But your powers don’t come from nine swords. You are a good swordsman, and you can fight well enough with one sword. Obviously, if you can wield all nine swords, you will be able to go farther than now.”
I upload a video I prepared in advance.
“This···?”
“The video I was going to show you before. It’s an edited video of your mother’s battle. I thought you forgot to see it because you were training, so I brought it in advance.”
A video of Nam Goong-yeon’s mother dealing with her enemies is projected on the wall of the Daeryun Room.
“Look Carefully. Nam Goong Yeon. Your mother never had to face an enemy with nine swords. Sometimes, using only one or two, he chose the battlefield exactly where the sword had to intervene and fought.”
I’ve seen her a few times, but it’s probably her respect for her eye patch.
Even now, I had a chance to see her idol properly.
“You can be like your mother. Mastering them one by one. Now from the first sword.”
I move the video to the scene I bookmarked.
This is an interview with Serena Cruz before becoming Serena Namgoong.
“ah. It’s mom.”
“Ms. Cruise. You are said to be the strongest swordsman who can freely wield nine swords. How can I go down the same path as you?”
I could see tears welling up on her face.
“It’s simple. Everything tends to go to one place when it reaches its climax. Once you master one, you’ll get used to the next two swords. And the speed gets faster and faster, and later, just by grasping the handle of the sword, you will know it all.”
It felt like she was correcting her own behavior, not anyone else.
“How would you react if someone wanted to imitate you?”
She responds with a smile.
“I want to tell you to do one thing and then move on to the other things.”
Nam Goong-yeon, who weeps after seeing this, squeezes my neck and asks.
Her stamina is quite impressive.
“Answer me. Can I be a great swordsman like my mother?”
She quickly grabbed my arm and buried her forehead in my chest.
“answer quickly.”
“You can be like your mother.”
She used me as a shield for a while and cried silently.
*
After everything is done, Namgoongyeon pushes me and Sorina into the car.
Then head to the highest point of the city near the Fallenhof.
He hid behind me with a dazed face as to whether it was okay to come to such an expensive place in a noisy sweatshirt.
“Ugh, Hobini. It’s hard to breathe.”
“Sound. If you come near an expensive building, will you have trouble breathing?”
[Understanding has increased!]
You mean it was real?
It’s a shame to come from a poor country and have a hard life, but to see things that are too expensive are scary.
Should I give her a bag of hyperventilation bread?
We headed to a franchise restaurant run by a subsidiary of the Namgung family.
“It’s what I always ate. Give them something to eat.”
As soon as we sat down, Namgoongyeon started picking up fine wine.
You start pouring the glass without decanting properly.
And he reached out towards the slurred price tag, which had been distracted by the interior of the restaurant, which looked very expensive at first glance.
And as soon as he saw how many zeros there were, he trembled loudly like a game.
“Gung! This is too expensive!!”
“It’s not your money anyway, so be quiet and eat. And I’m not Nam Gung-yeon. It’s called Namgung Yeon. Idiot.”
“Gung! I called you a fool again!”
Crazed by the overwhelming cost and the crazy VAT, Sorina loses her mind for a moment and then reacts to the sound of an idiot.
She is just so cute when she flirts with her cheek candy again.
The best restaurant near the Fallen Hope with Sorina.
The Namgung family was not only a samurai, but also a place that dominated the business world of Korea.
It may be natural for them to have at least one chain restaurant.
“miss. What did you come here for today?”
“To feed them. I came here because I didn’t want to see them go to the food court again.”
It seems that he had a brain freeze while trying to convert the price of a meal that comes out in loud euros.”
“Eat without thinking.”
Namgoongyeon forcibly pours the soup into Sorina’s mouth.
Sorina doesn’t want to give her time to think about money.
“Delicious!”
He must have been quite hungry.
Is it because you can eat expensive rice for free?
She seemed to think she was lucky to be able to receive such luxury all at once in Dalian.
“How can you eat something so delicious? I wish my mom was here!”
It is probably the first time in a poor and difficult life that I have been given such a broken upper leg.
Namgoong-yeon exclaimed eagerly and looked at Sorina, who was enjoying her life’s first luxurious dinner, as if she was cute.
And I don’t miss this moment.
It’s a surprise attack when she’s mentally most relaxed.
“Nam Goong-yeon. Let’s do the Guardian’s introductory performance evaluation with us.”
“yes?”
And I want to use someone I can trust in an upcoming performance evaluation.
“Is there no one to do it?”
Is it because I stabbed her in the face too much? she gets angry
“Heh heh!! Do I have someone to do it for me?”
“who?”
“you···.”
“what?”
She shouts, throwing the napkin at my face.
“I was going to do it with you, you idiot!! It’s not that you’re with me, it’s that I chose you. I know exactly. Buying food is for you to do better, so I don’t think I’ll forgive you if you hold my ankles.”
He is a friend who is not honest with himself.
Anyway, as long as she joined our team, her current goal is to plan the best and get good grades.
I will get the best grades with the performance evaluation team members from Team B.
And based on good grades, we will change other people into a better future one by one.
I ate oysters and made a hot promise.
That is how we will overcome the destruction one by one.